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So my coworker sells a new laptop to an elderly gentleman and transfers all his documents.
After a week he comes back and says that he can't open his documents.
My coworker comes to me and asks me to fix it since he's given up.
the files have the file ending .shs a quick google later and I find this MS article.
Turns out that the customer had used outlook and "Use Word as mail editor" and had been unable to figure out how to use the save function and used this as a "shortcut" instead of copying and pasting to get the text he received by mail into word.
And apparently MS decided to remove this madness in Vista cause this system isn't included in vista.
He had more than a hundred files and "porting" the functionality seemed quicker than opening each and every and resaving it as doc, so I copied the shscrap.dll file of my workstation to his and added the appropriate reg entries (again, google is your friend) and suddenly I had made Vista a bit more backwards compatible.
My coworker took the heavy part of explaining to the customer
After a week he comes back and says that he can't open his documents.
My coworker comes to me and asks me to fix it since he's given up.
the files have the file ending .shs a quick google later and I find this MS article.
In Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, you can drag and drop selected document text, drawing objects, and graphics to the Windows desktop. A desktop icon is created for the scrap file, along with a file located in the Windows\Desktop subfolder with an .shs extension. This file is a native program document that contains the information that was selected and dragged onto the Windows desktop. If you select and delete the desktop icon, the corresponding .shs file is also deleted. You can select and drag a scrap file on the desktop into another document.
NOTE: The scrap file is a special OLE object and is not a readable file. You cannot open an .shs file nor can you insert it into another document (for example, you cannot insert an .shs file by using the File command on the Insert menu in Word). To place a scrap into a document or workbook, you must drag it to the document. However; you can rename the scrap object or move it from one directory to another just as you can rename or move an ordinary file.
The Word for Windows scrap file document contains margin settings of 0 (zero) inches. When you drag the scrap document into another Word document, the scrap file conforms to the page setup of the existing Word document; thus, only the contents of the scrap file are transferred into the Word document.
NOTE: The scrap file is a special OLE object and is not a readable file. You cannot open an .shs file nor can you insert it into another document (for example, you cannot insert an .shs file by using the File command on the Insert menu in Word). To place a scrap into a document or workbook, you must drag it to the document. However; you can rename the scrap object or move it from one directory to another just as you can rename or move an ordinary file.
The Word for Windows scrap file document contains margin settings of 0 (zero) inches. When you drag the scrap document into another Word document, the scrap file conforms to the page setup of the existing Word document; thus, only the contents of the scrap file are transferred into the Word document.
And apparently MS decided to remove this madness in Vista cause this system isn't included in vista.
He had more than a hundred files and "porting" the functionality seemed quicker than opening each and every and resaving it as doc, so I copied the shscrap.dll file of my workstation to his and added the appropriate reg entries (again, google is your friend) and suddenly I had made Vista a bit more backwards compatible.
My coworker took the heavy part of explaining to the customer
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